Can I do that with PageLines Framework? If not, how can I integrate Slidedeck or another slider into the same position that the slider or carousel would show up in PageLines? I have a shortcode for Slidedeck if there is some place I can plug it in. I want this to show up on blog pages, below the header.

First, you can use settings to have slides based on a category. The settings will let you set a specific category for your posts to display and a number of posts. As long as your images for posts in the category are the size needed, you'll be able to show slides just like the example you provided.

One secret... make the background color the same color as the site background, then using your graphics editor, make it transparent. Simply paste the photo into the slide on the side where you want it to appear, but make sure the slides are consistent in size and as wide as needed to fill the space.

) or Chrome's Inspection Tools, adjust the width of the overlay, its color (transparent is good) and the color, size and weight of the fonts in the overlay. Copy the tested code to Dashboard > PageLines > Site Options > Custom Code.

Now all you need to do is remember to keep your titles reasonably short and that the excerpt field in the post will provide the excerpt in the slider. The rest is simple settings.

Well, I decided I'm not *entirely* happy with the way it looks. The photo needs to not stretch to take up the entire Feature. But I'm stuck on how to fix it. Do I have any control over the size and cropping of the photo that gets used as the featured image? I want the Features to look like "Set 1" at about 1 minute into the video at

, but I am not finding where/how to make that happen. No matter what I set the options for in Feature Setup Options, they always look the same - with a photo that spans the entire feature and white text on the left. These are post pulled from the _Featured category, not individually created Features, if that makes a difference.

The photo needs to not stretch to take up the entire Feature. But I'm stuck on how to fix it. Do I have any control over the size and cropping of the photo that gets used as the featured image? I want the Features to look like "Set 1" at about 1 minute into the video at

, but I am not finding where/how to make that happen. No matter what I set the options for in Feature Setup Options, they always look the same - with a photo that spans the entire feature and white text on the left. These are post pulled from the _Featured category, not individually created Features, if that makes a difference.

Alternately, if I want to put a different slider in that same space, how can I do that? I have one that just needs a shortcode [featuredposts] added to the right place that I'd like to try, but I don't know where to put the shortcode.